Mall Than Meets the Eye
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| "Mall Than Meets the Eye" | ||||||
| Production company | Entertainment One | |||||
| Airdate | March 25, 2022 | |||||
| Writers | Kevin Burke & Chris Wyatt | |||||
| Directors | Paul O'Flanagan | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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It's BotBots time, y'all!
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| BotBots | Humans | |||
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Quotes
"BotBots!"
- —Sprinkleberry D'uhnut sets the tone for the entire series
"You should go find your squads! You've got friends out there you've never even met yet!"
"What is... 'friends'?"
"'Friends' is... are... only the most important thing in the world!"
- Burgertron are... is... absolutely right, Dimlit
"Okay. Time you all learned... The Sacred Rule of the Mall! No bot may ever, I repeat, ever reveal to the flesh-beings that we exist! Got it?"
"But that creature seems nice."
"Nice?! That thing eats burgers! And prunes plants! And kicks soccer balls! And let me tell you, you do not want to know what it does with plungers!"
"W-what does it do with flashlights?"
"We-e-e-ll, it... I mean it just kinda holds them."
"...I would like to be held."
- —Burgertron and Dimlit have very different worldviews
"He called us your... 'weird friends'."
"Yeah, sorry about that."
"That means 'weird most-important-thing-in-the-world!' Oh ho, no-one has ever said anything nicer to us!"
- —Dimlit helps Burgertron see the bright side of things
Notes
Continuity notes
- Obviously there's no prior continuity to note here, what with this being the first episode, but as the first episode, it establishes several ongoing important elements to the show: most importantly, The Sacred Rule of the Mall.
Transformers references
- The episode title is, of course, a play on "More than Meets the Eye", which was the the original Transformers series' tagline, major lyric to the theme song, title to its cartoon's three-part intro, and so many other uses over the years.
- The very first shot shows what appears to be the Transformers' homeworld of Cybertron... but is then revealed as just an illustration on a billboard advertising a wifi router. Psyche!
